The Base Image Script Framework (BIS-F) is the perfect way to seal your Base Image. Whatever your environment has run Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop with PVS or MCS, Citrix AppLayering, VMware Horizon View, you must prepare your Base Image before you can distribute this Image to multiple devices. If you install your Base Image from scratch or update them with new software, for the sealing process of your Base Image run this framework (preparation), it makes it also unique if you booting up your cloned device (personalization).

For a very long time, SCOM (sometimes extended with third-party plugins) is being used as datacenter management system in SBC and VDI environments. With mixed results, because when all individual items like CPU, memory and IO queues are giving a green light, it doesn't mean that the end-user will have a good user experience. And in particular user experience is the cause of many helpdesk calls.

Last week the first technical preview of Windows 10 has been uploaded to the service provider to be used in the cloud. Although we are talking about a technical preview (build 9860), this already gives a good impression of what we can expect. Windows 10 is expected to be released in 2015, but it's already useful to look ahead to see which business applications are still working and which ones need to be adjusted.